Chapter 2: Portable Space Is Really Convenient

But!

She hadn’t expected this much stuff.

Everything was randomly piled up on the floor, making the already crowded storeroom nearly impossible to step into.

With such a chaotic mix of items, Jiang Yu could only store about ten cubic meters of things into her space at a time.

And for larger items, she could only take them in one at a time, which slowed her down significantly.

Yet she didn’t want to leave anything for her ex-husband’s family.

So in the end, it took her nearly forty minutes to finally clear out the storeroom, leaving behind nothing but four bare walls.

When she left the storeroom, Jiang Yu didn’t rush off.

Instead, she headed straight toward her ex-mother-in-law’s courtyard, following the original host’s memory.

After all, according to that memory, most of the gold, silver, and cash in this household were in the hands of the old woman.

But when she reached her ex-mother-in-law’s room, she found two maidservants standing guard outside.

There was no way she could enter through the front.

Jiang Yu thought for a moment, then decided to circle to the back of the room. Relying on her superhuman strength, she carefully removed a window after several minutes and managed to climb in.

“Thud!”

Suddenly, before she had taken two steps inside, Jiang Yu accidentally kicked something.

Her heart clenched from the shock.

Luckily, the sound wasn’t too loud, and the two maids outside—likely too tired to care—didn’t react.

Jiang Yu waited patiently for a bit longer. Once she confirmed the maids weren’t coming in, she took out a kerosene lantern from her space.

No choice!

It was way too dark inside the room. If she bumped into something again, it could be bad.

Thankfully, the lantern’s light wasn’t too strong, so it wouldn’t be obvious from outside.

After all this hassle, Jiang Yu didn’t dare waste any more time.

She stored away everything in the room except for the bed where the old woman was sleeping.

As for the two side rooms, she emptied them as well—leaving behind only bare walls.

Her space was infinite anyway, so instead of searching bit by bit for the old woman’s hiding spots…

She might as well take all the furniture, then sort through it later at her leisure.

Besides, the furniture was made of good materials. Rather than leaving it to her ex-husband’s family, she could sell it later—or even use it as firewood if needed.

“Huh?”

Just as she was about to climb out the window, Jiang Yu suddenly noticed something odd.

The floor where a display shelf had stood seemed slightly sunken, uneven with the surrounding area.

Could it be… a basement?

People in the past did have a habit of building basements.

Delighted, Jiang Yu quickly searched around but didn’t find any hidden mechanism.

So she used brute force and pressed down hard on the uneven floor, displacing the bricks.

Then she began prying them up by hand, one by one.

Soon, an entrance to a basement appeared before her.

“Hehe! Who knew I had a talent for this?”

She waited a while longer at the entrance, letting the stale air inside dissipate.

Then Jiang Yu cheerfully climbed down into the basement.

“Whoa, whoa… Holy sh—!”

What did she just see?

The moment she entered, Jiang Yu was stunned by the scene in front of her.

Two large crates full of gold bars.

Plus all kinds of gold and silverware, jewelry, antiques, paintings and calligraphy…

And in a hidden side room, there was a stash of grain, cloth, and even around a hundred rifles, four crates of detonators, and six crates of old-style grenades.

What the hell?!

That old hag had completely fooled the original host!

Always pretending to be poor, making the girl use her dowry to support the entire family…

Turns out they were filthy rich—just too stingy to spend it!

Wait a minute!

This much stuff… didn’t look like it belonged to a bankrupt, rural landlord’s family at all.

And based on how her ex-husband’s family normally acted, if they really had this kind of wealth, wouldn’t they be throwing it around and showing off like crazy?

Suddenly, Jiang Yu remembered that even later in the book, the female lead had to go through hell, even with a warlord male lead backing her, just to bring the ex-husband’s family to justice.

So!

This stuff probably didn’t belong to the ex-husband’s family themselves.

It most likely belonged to their backer.

Whoever that was, they’d been stockpiling all this in secret—but for what?

Well, who cares!

Anyone who could act as a patron for that wretched family was probably no good either.

Jiang Yu shrugged off the thought and grinned so wide her eyes disappeared as she resumed rapidly stuffing everything into her space.

“Hehehe!”

With this much grain, she could easily feed an entire army for several days!

Especially all that gold and jewelry—surely that would be enough to cover a few months’ worth of military salaries, right?

As her thoughts wandered, time ticked by.

By the time she finished cleaning out the two underground rooms, almost two hours had passed.

She had completely blown past her original time estimate. Glancing regretfully in the direction of her ex-husband’s courtyard, Jiang Yu sighed.

For safety’s sake, she decided to head back first, then return again after her invisibility skill had cooled down.

After all, it would still be dark by then—plenty of time for another round of looting.

But just as she returned to the gate outside her own home, she saw several shadowy figures sneakily knocking on the door.

Very quickly…

Her maid came to open it.

“What took you so long? I was waiting so long I almost fell asleep. If we delay and the old lady gets mad, you’ll be the ones in trouble!”

“Haha! Aren’t we here now?”

“Hey! What are you doing? Take your filthy hands off me! I’m about to become our young master’s woman. Be careful, or I’ll have him take your worthless lives!”

“Oh ho! Still dreaming about being a concubine, are we? Hahaha, this is rich.”

“Y-You… what do you mean? Let me go!”

“What do we mean? Exactly what it sounds like. We’re sending you and your little mistress off to Drunken Spring Brothel to enjoy a new kind of life!”

“Haha! Come on, boys—after this score, we can live it up for a while again!”

“No—mmph…”

Watching the maid get knocked out the moment her mouth was covered, Jiang Yu’s expression darkened.

She hadn’t expected this at all. She had clearly cooperated, even letting Butler Cheng take all the valuable things.

And yet, her ex-mother-in-law still planned to sell her off to a brothel.

Ha!

Jiang Yu didn’t believe this was some plot-device misfortune.

No—her ex-mother-in-law probably never intended to let her go from the beginning.

As for that maid? Jiang Yu felt she had it coming.

The original host had treated her so well—it wasn’t even an exaggeration to say they were like real sisters.

And yet, the girl betrayed her just to become some man’s concubine, helping sell her out in the process…

Her invisibility was about to run out.

No time to think.

Jiang Yu grabbed two heavy items from her space at random.

Then she leapt forward and smashed them down on the heads of the two men bringing up the rear.

In a blur—

She saw the men’s skulls sink inward under the blow.

They didn’t even have time to groan before they collapsed on the spot.

Jiang Yu didn’t stop moving. The moment she landed, the items in her hands were already flying through the air.

She hurled them at the heads of the other two men who had turned to investigate the noise.

“Who’s there—”

Your grandma, that’s who.

Since she was close enough, the projectiles hit the men square in the face. And with a bit of force behind the throw, their faces caved in completely.

Clearly, they were very, very dead.

Just then, the last man—the one holding the unconscious maid—finally reacted.

Too bad!

The moment he made a sound, Jiang Yu pulled out another random object from her space and smashed it into him.

Instant silence.

“Phew… scared the hell out of me!”

After confirming that all the black-clad intruders were well and truly dead, Jiang Yu, still shaken from the experience, realized her entire body was trembling.

She hadn’t even noticed when her invisibility wore off.

But no wonder.

These were real, living people she had just killed!

Before this, she hadn’t even killed a chicken.

Now… from sheer fear and tension, her body was shaking uncontrollably and completely drained of strength.

Her stomach lurched violently, and she immediately retched—

“Blaaaargh—!”

Damn it!

She had felt so badass just a few moments ago, and now she was vomiting like a wreck.

The physiological backlash was something else.

With nothing in her stomach to throw up, the dry heaving left her gasping and convulsing.

Jiang Yu had to desperately reassure herself:

This was self-defense.

If she hadn’t struck first, she would’ve been the one to suffer.

Sure, she had strength on her side, but those guys were five to one against her.

And who knew if they had guns?

Worse still, what if there were more of them waiting outside?

If she had caused too much noise and drawn attention, things could have gone south fast…